Welcome to the OG Scully – Nandor Fodor – an Eastern European ghost hunter and prolific author, who practiced his investigations during the heyday of Spiritualism, while debunking mediums and faux seances right and left. However he did specialize in one thing in particular: poltergeists.
Show Notes
In Part One of this two parter, we discuss Fodor’s beginnings, what got him into paranormal investigation, how he bumped elbows with Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and how he deciphered who was phony and who was legit in the Spiritualist realm. Featuring the poltergeist Gef the Mongoose!
References
Summerscale, Kate. “The Haunting of Alma Fielding, A True Ghost Story”; Penguin Press, New York 2021
Staff writer (May 19, 1964). “NANDOR FODOR, 69, A PSYCHOANALYST; Author of Theory to Explain Poltergeists Is Dead,” The New York Times, retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/19/archives/nandor-fodor-69-a-psychoanalyst-author-of-theory-to-explain.html
Editors (no date). “Fodor, Nandor (1895-1964),” Encyclopedia.com, Cengage Publishing, retrieved from: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/fodor-nandor-1895-1964
Coleman Nelson, Marie (June 1964). “Nandor Fodor: 1895-1964,” The Psychoanalytic Review, retrieved from: https://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=psar.051b.0155a
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